’A Small Rebellion Against the Machine’
Poet Seth Wieck on Writing in the Margins, Memorizing Verse Behind the Wheel, and His Debut Collection ‘Call Out Coyote’
Do people read poetry anymore? The vast majority of us, according to YouGov, show familiarity with poetry and about half view it positively. But a 2022 National Endowment for the Arts survey reveals only 9.2 percent of us actually read any in the prior year. As I hope this conversation shows, we’re missing something.
On any given day, you’ll find poet Se…
